@faianca using the latest NodeBB version. Redis 3.2.4 Avg. amount of connections (ss -s): ~2000 Avg. amount of people online (forum only): ~120 Avg. load time (without ads): <500ms Avg. amount of pageviews (monthly): ~1.5 Mio. As you can see benchmarks do not mean a damn. I run a dedicated server (self built) at the Illiad Group (France). The websites themselves are split into several smaller VMs by using KVM. Here the node specs: +1GBits up/down 32GB DDR4 RAM 512GB RAID10 SSD Intel Xeon E5-2680V4 (dedicated for this KVM) Intel Xeon Phi 3120P (shared) If you want I can run a benchmark on my E7 machine. But I doubt it will change a lot.